Rebirth 2014: I, the King of Criminal Investigation

Chapter 653 Lacking confidence in living, lacking the resolve to die

On the road.

"It has been investigated and found that the apartment is located on the second floor, with a north-south facing layout and windows on both sides. From the outside, there are no security bars installed."

A police officer is reporting to Yu Dazhang:
“We have contacted the neighborhood committee and asked them to knock on the door. The locksmith is on his way.”

The bad habit of contacting the neighborhood committee at the first sign of trouble needs to be changed as soon as possible... Yu Dazhang does not believe that the neighborhood committee has an obligation to cooperate with the police in handling cases.

Especially dangerous operations like this one that involve arrests.

If the older woman gets hurt, who will take responsibility?

It is important to understand that neighborhood committees are grassroots self-governing organizations, not administrative organs, and therefore do not have law enforcement power or corresponding safeguards.

"No need to bother the neighborhood committee, just prepare the door-breaking tool."

Yu Dazhang said in a deep voice:

“We’re looking to catch a human trafficker who has been hiding in the city for years. Simple tricks like the neighborhood committee knocking on the door won’t fool him.”

When he heard the description of the house's layout and floor, he already guessed Xie Wei's idea.

If you rent a place on the first floor, it's like catching a turtle in a jar; the police can easily enter the room through the window.

The third floor is too dangerous; jumping to escape would be tantamount to suicide.

At such a height, even if one were to survive by sheer luck, they would inevitably be injured.

Relatively speaking, the height of the second floor is just right.

This height would prevent the police from easily entering the building, while also providing him with a relatively safe opportunity to escape by jumping out of the window.

However, if the police have sufficient manpower, they can catch the fish in a barrel no matter which floor it is.

At the foot of a residential building.

"Five people went through each of the front and back windows."

Yu Dazhang gave the officers the following orders:
"The rest of you go upstairs and let the locksmith try to open the door first. If there is any unusual activity, break down the door immediately."

The task force here, including the newly arrived reinforcements, has a total of 17 people, which means we have plenty of manpower.

Moreover, these are all police officers from the provincial department; there are no rookies among them, and they are all experienced criminal investigators.

At his command, the officers immediately sprang into action.

Yu Dazhang stood downstairs, staring at the second-floor window.

With such a sufficient manpower, he no longer needed to lead from the front.

Soon, the sound of metal clanging came from the second floor.

Yu Dazhang was overjoyed.

You can tell from the sound that it's a door battering ramming against the lock, which means someone is inside.

Immediately afterwards, he saw someone come to the window through the second-floor window and look down.

Xie Wei!

Yu Dazhang recognized him at a glance, and the moment the other man saw him, he raised his hand and waved.

This gesture is both a greeting and a way of persuading the other party to give up the resistance.

There's no suspense anymore.

Yu Dazhang had already planned ahead; the biggest challenge in this arrest operation was that Xie Wei wasn't home.

As long as he's there, he's basically safe.
Arresting a human trafficker with a dozen or so armed police officers is about as easy as using a cannon to kill a mosquito.

Moreover, Xie Wei had no time to react to this sudden attack.

Sure enough, Xie Wei was taken away by police officers from the provincial department in less than five minutes.

He didn't even open the window once, let alone jump off the building to escape.

With police officers stationed at both the front and back windows, and the front door broken down, he had no choice but to surrender.

"This is his knife."

A police officer reached out to Da Zhang, in which lay a dagger.

Yu Dazhang didn't answer, but frowned and asked:

"He tried to resist?"

Knife against gun? He didn't think Xie Wei was that stupid. "When we went inside, we found him holding a knife to his own neck."

The officer explained:
"However, he only struggled for a moment. After seeing that we had surrounded him, he still couldn't bring himself to do it."

Finally, the officer smiled, a smile he shouldn't have given him, but he couldn't help it.

Yu Dazhang couldn't laugh.

Xie Weineng's actions indicate that he had prepared for suicide beforehand, but he hesitated in the face of death.

Fortunately.

If he dies, this case will be really difficult to handle.

Watching the police officers put Xie Wei into the car, Yu Dazhang turned around and went upstairs to his room.

This is a two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment with simple decorations and no unnecessary furnishings.

There was only a single bed in the small room. Yu Dazhang glanced around and saw nothing but a pair of slippers on the floor.

He then went to the main house, which was filled with all kinds of food.

Instant noodles, canned goods, bags of rice, various dried goods, and some pickled products.

"They're not planning to leave the house."

Looking at the room full of food, Yu Dazhang roughly estimated that if it were just for one person, it would last at least half a year.

It seems Xie Wei prepared the food before taking action.

He walked around the house again and finally found an old-fashioned telephone book in a cabinet in the living room.

After glancing through the phone book, Yu Dazhang put it into his bag.

This was exactly what he was looking for; in his eyes, this phone book represented Xie Wei's true network of connections.

Xie Wei is 41 years old this year, an age at which he is no longer very interested in new things.

Moreover, human traffickers don't trust things online; even if you look through these people's phone contacts, you won't find many contacts.

Because they are well aware of the risks involved, they prefer to use traditional methods to record important contact information.

Back at the station.

Yu Dazhang returned to the observation room, where police officers were already interrogating Xie Wei.

I'll ask you one more time.

The officer in charge of the interrogation asked in a cold voice:
"Where did you take those fourteen deaf-mute girls?"

Xie Wei leaned back in the interrogation chair, neither answering nor looking at the police officer opposite him.

This attitude angered the officer, who slammed his hand on the table.
"Xie Wei, don't you even look where you are? All you have to do now is honestly tell me about this road."

However, it was no use. Xie Wei remained defiant, leaning lazily against the interrogation chair, seemingly not taking the police seriously at all.

He knew he was doomed... Yu Dazhang could tell Xie Wei's state of mind just from his expression.

Can't delay any longer.

We must get him to talk as soon as possible, before this connection is broken.

As soon as the thought crossed his mind, Yu Dazhang immediately got up and went to the interrogation room.

The police officer who was interrogating him immediately stood up when he entered.

Yu Dazhang nodded to him, indicating that he could leave.

Why not keep them together for trial?

Because people have different ways of thinking.

Interrogation also has a rhythm; it's difficult to synchronize the rhythm when two people are interrogating each other simultaneously.

Therefore, interrogations are usually conducted with only two people present: one presiding over the interrogation and the other taking notes. Others who wish to participate can only do so from the observation room.

After the police officer left, Yu Dazhang came up to Xie Wei and looked down at him.

"Still remember me?"

Yu Dazhang smiled:
"I greeted you downstairs at your place before."

(End of this chapter)